J.A. Konrath famous quotes

03-24-2025

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Positive #Complaining #Quitting
Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. Iâ€™m counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they donâ€™t give you a reason to be in this lane.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Giving #Might #Hemorrhoids
If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Smart #Being Smart
Never having something is different than having something and losing it.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Different #Losing
All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Writing #Character #Giving
Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Two #Anxiety #Complaining
Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Book #Writing #People
Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Sides #Helping #Bronte
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Essentials #Reader
There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Success #Giving Up #Stress
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Ice #Race #August
Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isnâ€™t a learned behavior. Itâ€™s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Fire #People #Trying
Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Fate #Trying #Enough
Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Dad #Sorry #Heart
As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.
-- J.A. Konrath

#Imagination #Lucky #Alive

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